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Enniskerry espresso query

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  • 26-07-2014 9:23am
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    fillup
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭


    Howdee

    I'm planning on taking a break in Enniskerry on Sun morn after a spin up to Sally Gap
    And I, keeping rule 56 in mind
    (http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#56) I was wondering if anyone could recommend somewhere for a daycent hit of coffee

    Cheers

    P


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    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    At last, a serious relevant question, worthy of this forum.


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    LennoxR
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭LennoxR


    fillup wrote: »
    Howdee

    I'm planning on taking a break in Enniskerry on Sun morn after a spin up to Sally Gap
    And I, keeping rule 56 in mind
    (http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#56) I was wondering if anyone could recommend somewhere for a daycent hit of coffee

    Cheers

    P

    Has to be Poppies. Best looking waitresses too.


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    Hauki
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭Hauki


    Poppies. No alternatives. And divine carrot cake too!


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    Carpenter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭Carpenter


    LennoxR wrote: »
    Has to be Poppies. Best looking waitresses too.

    Best looking waitresses + Lycra = Trouble :D


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    fillup
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭fillup


    Poppies it is then

    The espressos better be as good n hot as the waitress aparently is!


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    bobwilliams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bobwilliams


    the coffee is actually better in the place across the road and up a bit,can't think of the name


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    dragratchet
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    bobwilliams wrote: »
    the coffee is actually better in the place across the road and up a bit,can't think of the name

    thats the kingfisher cafe you're thinking of. coffee is grand in both


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    fillup
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭fillup


    I can gladly report that both the coffee and carrot cake lived up to expectation

    No comment on the waitresses, I'm a happily married middle aged man and I plan on keeping it that way!!!


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    ThisRegard
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    Nothing is going to stop you from becoming a happily married old man I'm afraid.


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    Eamonnator
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    Going to Glendalough on Tuesday, for a few days R+R. I shall make it my business to visit Poppies.


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    ckeego
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    Kennedy's on the same side of the square is a much better espresso..

    Poppies is full of old dears drinking bed pans of weak brown water.


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    fillup
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭fillup


    I'm glad I asked such an innocuous question

    Good job I didn't lob in the "make helmets compulsory" grenade


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    ford2600
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    ckeego wrote: »
    Poppies is full of old dears drinking bed pans of weak brown water.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6LhZJdCQY


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    Brian?
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    Eamonnator wrote: »
    Going to Glendalough on Tuesday, for a few days R+R. I shall make it my business to visit Poppies.

    I'd go into the coffee place in Laragh instead. Really nice food and coffee

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    MrCreosote
    Registered Users Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭MrCreosote


    It's "eXpresso" by the way.

    Sorry to get all grammer nazi, but its one misspelling that really annoys me.


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    LennoxR
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭LennoxR


    MrCreosote wrote: »
    It's "eXpresso" by the way.

    Sorry to get all grammer nazi, but its one misspelling that really annoys me.

    Eh, its not actually, it's espresso. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso.
    Kennedy's on the same side of the square is a much better espresso..

    Poppies is full of old dears drinking bed pans of weak brown water.

    That's bullplop. Great coffee in there. And did I mention the waitreses?


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    fillup
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭fillup


    MrCreosote wrote: »
    It's "eXpresso" by the way.

    Sorry to get all grammer nazi, but its one misspelling that really annoys me.

    Firstly it's espresso and not "expresso" and secondly, for a self professed "grammer nazi" your own grasp of the written word is quite limited. I can spot three mistakes with your sentence and that's ignoring the very dodgy comma you dropped in there for no apparent reason.


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    MrCreosote
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    Fine if your in Italy to use an Italian phrase, but its more polite to use the English term (expresso as the Wikipedia article says) in English speaking countries.


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    fillup
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭fillup


    I'm going to invoke rule 89 on this one.
    http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#89


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    Rambling Man
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭Rambling Man


    fillup wrote: »
    I'm going to invoke rule 89 on this one.
    http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#89

    Not sure that rule covers the nomclature of strong Italian coffees.


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    blobbie
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    MrCreosote wrote: »
    Fine if your in Italy to use an Italian phrase, but its more polite to use the English term (expresso as the Wikipedia article says) in English speaking countries.

    http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/espresso

    "Usage

    The spelling expresso is not used in the original Italian and is strictly incorrect, although it is common."

    If ye want an Expresso, get a bus :P


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    Idleater
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    blobbie wrote: »
    http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/espresso

    "Usage

    The spelling expresso is not used in the original Italian and is strictly incorrect, although it is common."

    If ye want an Expresso, get a bus :P

    I also find myself looking at my plate decorated with a panino cut in half trying to decide whether cutting one of something in half makes it an advertised plural panini in this case.


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    blobbie
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    Idleater wrote: »
    I also find myself looking at my plate decorated with a panino cut in half trying to decide whether cutting one of something in half makes it an advertised plural panini in this case.

    Depends on whether you are in an English speaking or Italian speaking cafe

    http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/panini

    ;-)


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    a148pro
    Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Surely there's also a rule about invoking the fact that you're "happily married" to decline to comment on a well endowed waitress? We need to get back to basics here.


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    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,385 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    Anyone ever make a "cyclists map"? Containing things like nicest coffee/cake/sanwich/pint in each village town on the popular cyclist routes. Or any cyclist-friendly spots that have toilets/taps available?

    Might be a nice little resource


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    Lumen
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    a148pro wrote: »
    Surely there's also a rule about invoking the fact that you're "happily married" to decline to comment on a well endowed waitress? We need to get back to basics here.
    There's no reference to endowments.

    Oh, and I think 'hot waitress' is now considered sexist. They're all 'hot waiters' now.

    Which reminds me of the time I was as Guilbaud's with a bunch of Irish women. They rounded on the the hot French waiter and forced him to repeatedly pronounce "butter" as they cooed in delight.


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    Koobcam
    Registered Users Posts: 828 ✭✭✭Koobcam


    Shedite27 wrote: »
    Anyone ever make a "cyclists map"? Containing things like nicest coffee/cake/sanwich/pint in each village town on the popular cyclist routes. Or any cyclist-friendly spots that have toilets/taps available?

    Might be a nice little resource

    That would be a handy thing to add to the route maker in strava-nearby segments and coffee. In the absence of that, try Yelp or just google maps


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    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Shedite27 wrote: »
    Anyone ever make a "cyclists map"? Containing things like nicest coffee/cake/sanwich/pint in each village town on the popular cyclist routes. Or any cyclist-friendly spots that have toilets/taps available?

    Might be a nice little resource

    already done.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057119247


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    spyderski
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    MrCreosote wrote: »
    It's "eXpresso" by the way.

    Sorry to get all grammer nazi, but its one misspelling that really annoys me.
    It doesn't annoy me, as it's not a misspelling. But spelling GRAMMAR as "grammer" definitely does. :eek:

    Being a GRAMMAR Nazi requires being able to spell properly yourself......


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    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    fillup wrote: »
    Howdee

    I'm planning on taking a break in Enniskerry on Sun morn after a spin up to Sally Gap
    And I, keeping rule 56 in mind
    (http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#56) I was wondering if anyone could recommend somewhere for a daycent hit of coffee

    Cheers

    P


    When looking for recommendations for a coffee hit in Enniskerry, I bet, you never dreamt, your thread would end up here.


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